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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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    Working on Plebbit

    For those who don’t know, that was a shitty hard right wing social media that kept talking vaguely about how it was like crypto and torrenting.

    For years now people have been spamming it to the threadiverse and trying to trick people into joining.

    If you go to this website:

    https://bitsocial.net/

    It lists 5chan as inspiration…

    And people are upvoting and promoting this entirely unmoderated chan board because two seconds of research is too difficult…

    Like, c’mon people, critical thinking is important now more than ever

    Quick edit:

    And to be clear this is the exact same project OP always spams, they just keep changing the name of it. It used to be accessible over the web tho, which allowed everyone to see the fucking horrendously racist, bigoted, and outright illegal shit they want people to be able to post.






  • Rail was owned by the wealthiest and they made their money shipping freight.

    Lobbyists got the US government to “sell” them the actual railways, but they had to maintain it.

    So if/when there’s a conflict on the rail, freight gets to go first. They’re giant heavy trains moving insanely slowly, so even tho passenger could get by faster, they sit for hours waiting.

    Back to private companies maintaining the rails, they did cost/benefit analysis and decided since they pay insurance anyways, it’s not smart to fix anything till insurance rates go up.

    The problem is when a wreck happens there’s public outcry, so the government uses taxpayer funds to fix it quickly.

    They wait till an accident happens, insurances pays for just the cargo, and that’s insured by the supper so the train insurance never goes up. Taxpayers pay to clean up the wreck and put in new tracks.

    With the current system, the wrecks will keep happening more and more frequently because stuff only gets fixed after it fails, and only that one spot.



  • there are 3-4 Animal Crossing communities, but none are active. One is posted to by a bot. There is basically no Animal Crossing community on Lemmy, even though spaces exist. Same for my favourite band, favourite singer, favourite film — all of which had active communities on Reddit.

    Admins need to do routine pruning…

    A shit ton of people jumped over from reddit and instantly created a bunch of communities just so they’d be “top mod” but there was either no demand or no supply. So accounts that mod 20-30 communities went inactive years ago at this point.

    I picked up a /fantheories community no one had ever really posted to, just because I didn’t want to post somewhere that didn’t have an active mod.

    But I guess any type of community on reddit that isn’t on lemmy is gonna get created anyways.

    But if you see dead communities about something you’re interested in, admins are usually pretty thankful if someone offers to take it.





  • I used to love Borderlands…

    Then they locked characters behind expensive DLC. So I started waiting for the “everything” editions, but then it made sense to just wait for big sales…

    And eventually not caring about the franchise.

    Its like Crusader Kings or Sims. It’s better than annual releases that don’t really change, but the DLC structure turns people away from the entire game. Even if you wait for a sale, all the “new” DLC stays expensive.

    So people put off buying anything till they just don’t care.





  • Most kids still pay for the shitty standard cafeteria lunch tray…

    Sometimes in later in like highschool they’re given more options. But it’s pretty much comes down to capitalism.

    The vast amount of parents won’t pack a lunch and will never even see the quality of food.

    What’s fucked up is healthy food is actually insanely cheap at that scale and dependable need. We’d spend just as much feeding kids a healthy high protein/fiber low sugar/fat meal as we do giving them ultra processed garbage.

    There just would be profit margins for contracting companies if we did that

    Likeost things in America, no system is designed to be the best or most efficient at anything other than making money. Anything that doesn’t make money, the wealthy are constantly trying to privatize.

    That’s the whole “late stage capitalism” thing people always say.


  • Mac-L-more

    So if you mean “el” like “el tigre chino”, then that’s correct. “L” just eliminates confusion.

    I have no strong feelings about him as an artist

    He makes super upbeat and stupid music 99% of the time, but he’s got a lot more artistic credibility than most.

    Can’t remember if he was wealthy before music, or was just unsigned and smart about his money. But dude will at least stand by his principles even when it costs him money.


  • They react very, very quickly by adjusting orientation and shape.

    They experience time slower, to them a second just feels longer. It’s like Neo in permanent “bullet time”.

    When I was a kid it was pretty easy to catch one alive in my hand. But now my reflexes have slowed and I can only do it from experience and luckily having large hands.

    But my big ass hand smacking one out the air and catching it in the same palm is going to hurt it more than going out a window, and weirdly enough I’ve never killed a fly catching it.

    They’re a lot sturdier than people think. Any amount of bounce and they’re cool.